The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-06


their counsels. and even the sanctua'
res of our religion and the ministers
at the altar have not altogether escaped
his prevailing and blighting influence.
He has encouraged SABBATu-BREAK'
ING, profanity, impurity, thicving
house burning, robbery, gambling
SANDER, and fighting, and has
RUINED THE MORALS OF EVERY CoMMu.
NIFTY
over which he has obtained an inllu-
ence. |..
He vitiates the taste and dcmoralizes
the habits of our unsuspectng children,
thus prcpering them for an easy prey
hereafter.
He has brought all our free institu-
tons, the porpetuity of our govern
ment, and our CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY itself into imminent danger
He has suborncd many of our unsus-
pecting citizens, who are professedly
opposed to his influence, to unite with
and sustain him, and spread its curses
far and wide throughout the commu-
nifty.
While in the very act of administer
ing to his victims his potions of DEAD
~ POISON he has hypocritically pro-
fessed to offer the most grateful bever-
age. He has promised health, and life,
and Joy, while there was death in the
pot.
He has scared the consciences. and
blunted the mortal perceptions of men,
so rs to
DESTROY THE EFFICACY OF THE GOSPEL
and the means which god has appoint
ed for their spiritual and eternal good.
He has dishonored God, in whose
image and for whose glory man was
created, by sinking his image beneath
the level of the irrational brutes.
He has arrayed himself against all
patriotic, humane, and benevolent eff
forts.
He expelleth reason, drowneth mem
Dry, dcfaceth beauty, diminisheth
strength, inIlameth the blood, causeth
internal, external. and incur
able wounds is witch to the senses,
devil to the soul, Il thief to the purse
beggar's companion, the wife's woe,
the childrcn's sorrow, the picture of n
beast, the madman's prompler, and
the Pandora to the human family.
We will now call the world to wit
ness if we have been wanting in
ATTENTION AND FoRBEARANCE TO THE
TRAITOR
while he has been extending his UNI
warrantable Jurisdiction over lis.
Has not our government afforded
HIM the most liberal protection ?
Has he not sailed UNDER OUR FLAG
on every ocean and on every sea?
Have not our magistrates given him
the FREEDOM OF OUR CITIES, and even
LICENSED him to do whatsoever he
listed?
Has he not been openly received and
Landed in our public assemblies? Have
not our lawyers and orators and states
men, the most prominent men of our
free Republic, been obsequious, to his
call and subservient to his interests
Have not our physicians administered
their potions under his influence? and
him to their patients as
a gloom-dispeller and health-restorer9
Have not the ministers of our re-
lgion and the deacons and elders
of our CHURCHES EXERCISED ALL
Due MODERATION toward him: Have
not our farmers cheerfully divided
with him their SUBSTANCE Have not
our merchants paid dear for his com
modities. which have proved WORSE
THAN USELESS? Have not our mcchan-
les given him n seat on their work
benchesy Have not Or old men bow
Ell down before him and our young
men done him reverence! Have not
our maidens smiled upon him and
our children been taught to love him!
Has he not been received into our do
nestle circles, and TO seat at our Ia